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1. August 25, 2011 04:40 PM

   Fortune Inside the Pfizer Fiasco

   A deeply reported piece on a management crisis at the giant drug company

   By Ryan Chittum

   Fortune has a dandy read in this issue on an executive fiasco at Pfizer that led to the sacking of two executives, including the CEO. Or as it puts it on the cover: WHAT HAPPENED at PFIZER The Inside Story of REVENGE, BETRAYAL, and POWER at the Top of the World's Largest Drug Company. Believe it or not, that headline's...

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2. September 25, 2012 06:50 AM

   Audit Notes: newspaper war, inflation fears, executive pay

   The Times-Picayune says it planned to go into Baton Rouge all along

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Times-Picayune plans to move into Baton Rouge to hit back at the Advocate's move into New Orleans. But publisher Ricky Mathews says that move was planned all along, well before the Baton Rouge Advocate announced it would print a daily newspaper in New Orleans to compete with the soon-to-be three days a week Times-Pic. The blog Dump the Picayune...

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3. January 25, 2012 06:36 PM

   The Journal Takes Us Inside the Google Drugs Sting

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Wall Street Journal has an excellent page-one story today on how federal agents caught Google deliberately breaking the law so it could make money off sites selling drugs online. That case ended with a settlement in which Google avoided criminal prosecution by paying the feds more than half a billion dollars. The Journal's leder traces how the government employed...

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4. July 23, 2012 11:00 AM

   When a news executive sits on a bank’s board

   The FT Group’s Fairhead is a director of troubled HSBC

   By Ryan Chittum

   It’s unusual—rare, even—for the CEO of a major financial news and information concern to serve on the board of directors of a giant global bank. There’s a reason for that. Rona Fairhead, who heads the Financial Times Group, the unit of British publishing and education giant Pearson PLC that owns the Financial Times newspaper, sits on the board of HSBC,...

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